Monday, May 6, 2013

Outgoing Graduate School of Social Service Dean Honored at Conference

Elaine Congress, Peter Vaughan and Allan Luks

Fordham’s Center for Nonprofit Leaders, a joint venture
between the Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA) and the Graduate School of Social
Service (GSS), honored GSS Dean Peter Vaughan for his vision and leadership at
a conference on Wednesday, May 1.

The gathering, which was held at the Lincoln Center campus,
attracted over 100 attendees.

In a speech, Vaughan who is retiring at the end
of the year, explored the eight skills of nonprofit leaders coined by Dennis
Young, Ph.D., the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Private
Enterprise and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at the Andrew Young
School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Since 2010, over 300 students from the fields of business,
social work, law, education, and public administration have graduated from the center’s
intensive certificate program, which is overseen by Elaine Congress, Ph.D., Associate
Dean of the Graduate School of Social Service, and Francis Petit, Ph.D., Associate
Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Allan Luks, executive director emeritus of Big Brothers, Big
Sister, and a visiting faculty member at the Graduate School of Social Service,
serves as director.

The center’s certificate programs are offered three times a
year—two times at the Lincoln Center campus and once a year at the Westchester
campus. Its newest initiative is a 30-credit masters degree program in nonprofit
leadership.